"I will meet you at the station..."
(Je vous rencontrerai à la station....?)Release Koreans in the Name of Allah!!
A Christian missionary group consisting of twenty-three Koreans was kidnapped and two of them, a priest and a former IT worker, were killed by the Taliban, while other 21 were still at a risk of execution.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6923455.stm)
If the Taliban killed 23 Korean Christians, it would be extremely alarming to the world, since "Pakistan has seen a massive increase in violence ever since Pakistani troops stormed the Red Mosque in early July," according to BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6921746.stm).
All the Muslims in the world should tell the Taliban to release Koreans in the name of Allah, since the Taliban and AlQaeda are reportedly fighting in the name of Allah.
Besides, the worse your enemies are in tactics, the better you have to be in strategy; if they kill one man, you have to save one life to win the favor of Allah.
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And thus, I still recall part of the novel "Moby Dick":
"And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago...:
"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States"
"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL"
"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFGHANISTAN."
Saudi Arabian Mr. Osama bin Laden and Egyptian Mr. Ayman al-Zawahiri were Muslims; and it is said that Muslims consider Arabs to be descendants of Ishmael.
If "Moby Dick" is a prophecy, it clearly states that when a grand contested election campaign for the Presidency of the United States is heated on and bloody battles are going on in Afghanistan, Muslims like a crew under Captain Ahab are going out for attacking a gigantic-white-whale-like nation which might be the U.S., the U.K., or EU.
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If something too extreme and bizarre has happened, we have to take heed of its significance and analyze its potential.
It was precisely when I heard a news report on AlQaeda's bombing of US embassies in East Africa in 1998 (after the death of Princess Diana in association with an Egyptian in 1997).
If you are an American citizen who has never realized or felt the huge influential power of the U.S. on other countries, you might not have been so alerted. But, with such a notion, it was truly an act of madness, since the bombing in 1998 was tantamount to declaring war on the U.S. which is essentially too large, strong, and influential to, as a hypothesis, attack by force for any cause not related to justice of all the mankind in the whole human history.
But, more alarming was that the Clinton Administration did not appropriately address it. Scores of missiles launched to AlQaeda camps in Afghanistan could not be effective unless US troops had been sent to deep in Afghanistan to arrest leaders of AlQaeda.
And, the Clinton Administration and the successive George W. Bush Administration did not send their troops to Afghanistan (except in the wake of the 9/11 terror in 2001) to arrest leaders of AlQaeda for their having bombed the two US embassies in East Africa, an act of overstepping a conventional paradigm of anti-US guerrilla activities.
In those days, I felt really uncomfortable in the course of events in Afghanistan; and eventually the answer came out with the 9/11 Terror (which must have been probably fatal to you for probably terribly unknown reasons, if any).
The same uncomfortable feeling has stemmed from the recent bloody incidents in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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I hope that the Taliban would release all the captive Koreans, mostly young Christian ladies engaged in a bona fide mission.
Though it is said that such a large-number-hostage-taking operation cannot be carried out by local Taliban followers but those under a chain of command from some Taliban's headquarters in Pakistan, they should release all the captive Koreans.
I do not believe Allah is glad to see his believers going to kill total 23 Korean civilians in Afghanistan, since it would be too extreme and bizarre.
I hope that a miracle will happen upon them all concerned, since this summer should not be another summer of 2001.
(Interestingly, US Vice President Mr. Dick Cheney is going to make a TV appearance on "Larry King Live" of CNN this week. What Mr. Cheney represents may be truly a "Moby Dick."
Indeed, when I was a schoolboy, I liked "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," in Japanese, since Tom returned alive just at his own funeral with his girl friend or Huckleberry Finn.
Have you read any? Or the "stories of the Thousand and One Nights" for your future survival?)
"...This is the second miracle that Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee..."